"One of the beautiful opportunities of today's extremely wide spectrum in jazz is interculturality.

In communication between different cultures lies the creative potential that New York based German-French double bassist and composer Pascal Niggenkemper fully exploits with his new international ensemble Vision 7 founded in 2011 in cooperation with the Jazzdor Festival Strasbourg-Berlin.

Dialogues, precisely the dialogue between the seven musicians, the composed and improvised music, the different personalities, styles, cultural identities, concepts and finally the dialogue of the musicians with the listener are the heart of the ensemble's debut album Lucky Prime.

Only the listener can give the story a sense. The opening lyrics of "Carnet plein d'histoires" says: "This is the story of the stories. To you this story might seem absurd, but it makes sense. Or does it not? Please, decide yourself!" The septet takes the listener on a very personal and associative journey, ranging from moments of intimate chamber music, improvised atonal sound installations and trough composed sections to unleashed improvisations.

Maximal freedom is given to the musicians and the listener although without leaving both in the randomness. "Almost everything is allowed," the CD liner notes say, at the same time everything follows a sort of "meta-structure" that embraces the album, yet without constricting it. It is only at the end of the album that the story comes to its end, that things come full circle.